October , 2010

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Chair: Margo Nygard CARC

• Framework – book study
  • do we have our books?
  • Have we all ordered?
    • Books have all been ordered but none have arrived, although bills for payment have.
    • Keeping our fingers crossed that these show soon.

• Institute Clarification
  • Any updates - Marg?
    • Mary Jo refreshed our memories from our institute meeting held in September
    • Wondering if we should give Marian's differentiation book to participants who register
    • Marg is currently working on the save-the-date flyer which will be ready soon
    • Marg & Ken met online with StatusFirm yesterday regarding technology needs for Jan 26
    • Next institute meeting is Oct 12.
      • hoping to have a proposed timeline from Marian Small
  • Any updates - Other sites?
    • No updates from other sites

• Math SMARTboard Tools Training - 3/consortia
  • Who is in?
    • CPPFP - 3 teachers
    • CARC - 2 teachers
      • Date did not work for the majority of the areas
      • will have the above plus 32 teachers from SAPDC virtually
      • Hoping to be able to offer training again as per what Pat mentioned in an earlier email
        • Margo suggested that we work to set up a time that works for most and use those trained internally if we can't meet with SMART
        • Like the idea of building lessons that show how to use the tools
        • Would like to look at creating screencasts/vodcasts of how to use the tools meaningfully (beyond static lesssons)
        • Would like to create document that aligns outcomes with suggested tools (including SMART and others) similar to TPACK activity types

• Moodle Project and Advertisement
  • Updates - SAPDC/CARC
    • Mary Jo provided a personal account of being one of the moodle teachers
    • Discussion around how to continue advertising this opportunity and how to get teachers on the site
      • PD Days
      • Districts Visits
      • McATA

• Webinar Access and ads
  • As per the emails
  • Are we any closer to understanding this process?
    • Feel this is getting better as we get used to the process
    • Low, low numbers even advertised provincially remain a concern
• McATA
  • Who's going? Renée
  • Rulers? Rulers have been ordered and should be in my hot little hands on the 21th.
  • Books? I have one: Man who counted (as suggested by Gerri)
  • Sessions?
  • OthER? CPFPP would like to invite you all for dinner on Thursday night at Cactus café`. It is close to the conference location. I need numbers and a preferred time. Merci. Renée
    • Looking forward to McATA
    • Please bring doorprizes (1bk/consortia)
    • Margo will create three certificates for door prizes at any consortia (up to $100) - is this our understanding?
• Meeting Chair Sign Up
  • Volunteers please
    • Harry has signed up for November. Still looking for chairs for 2011 meetings
• Other
  • Admin Toolkit Update
    • Math toolkit will be rolled out starting Nov 22 with SAPDC (F2F with Admin & Lead teachers within SAPDC)
    • Consortia Math Consultants – some time after that via Elluminate session (an hour)
  • Steven Leinwand will be doing a province wide follow up webinar in the spring as it’s the same message he gave in Edmonton and Calgary – follow up as one cohort as opposed to 3 separate webinars
  • If anyone is interested in a province wide mathematics share fair – contact Marg (for more details as well)